Timeline of events as below (directly quoted from Hobby Search):

October 6 – A system administrator found traces of attacks from Korea and began investigating immediately. That night, we contacted an external security firm to investigate.

October 7 – The external examiners began investigations in the morning. We shut off our systems for emergency maintenance, reinstalled all server operating systems and software, re-examined security settings, and isolated the server.
Logs indicated that customer data had been sent out from our server to the address of an institution in Korea.
We contacted that institution by phone and email about this incident and confirmed that the data had been deleted. We believe that they were used as a proxy.

October 8 – We revised program, network, firewall, and client machine security and implemented an intrusion detection system.

October 12 – We contacted the credit card transaction handler and began discussions about the course of action.

October 20 – The external investigators concluded their investigations and determined which and how much data had been accessed.

October 28 – With the results of the investigation and cooperation of credit card companies, we are ready to handle customer correspondence and have sent out email notifications to the customers that may have been affected.

Further information can be found on Q&A page.

If you purchased items from Hobby Search prior to July 7, please check your credit card statement to ensure that there is no suspicious charges. If you do find suspicious charges, contact your credit card company as soon as possible.

Because of this incident, Hobby Search is no longer accepting credit card and it’s been suspended indefinitely, thus, I believe the only available option is PayPal. Now, the question is will you still buy from Hobby Search ? For me, I completely lost my trust in the company because I expected that something like this should never happen in the first place. I am going to cancel all my preorders with Hobby Search and going with HLJ or Amy Amy. It may sound harsh but it’s for the best.

Image via Google.

Sorry for the lack update on my blog for the past month. I have a lot of things to write but can’t get my self to actually write it. Lack of motivation I guess and it also does not help when work and school consume my time. My fellow friends managed to convince to play World of Warcraft again since bunch of us already plays so there goes my spare time. Currently, lvl 35 priest at Crushridge Realm so if you play on the same server, let me know ^^. Do you ever want to have more than 24 hours per day ? I personally want to have 48 hours / day. 8-9 for work and the rest is for something else ^^;;.

Anyways, enough with my rambling and here comes my latest loot.

Saber Lily 1/7 by GSC finally arrived after  some delays in the past months, although, the delay was actually good for me since I had a lot expenses when I moved to a new place.

The box has interesting corners and I don’t see the point of making them flattened.

Front View

Right View

Back View

Left View

Top angle view

Checked my hobby search preorder and of course Fate got delayed…..again. I was expecting Nanoha would be delayed but I guess there are too many Fate fans out there so Alter can’t keep up with the pre-order.

The shipping cost for this Saber Lily is a friggin 5,400 yen. I realized it’s 1/7 but the shipping charge is unreasonable and I don’t see why Hobby Search felt the need put int a big box -_-;;. Gosh $50 just for the shipping alone and it’s more than half the price of Saber Lily. If you guys ordered from Hobby Search, please let me know what the shipping cost was >.> especially if you live in Canada.

Quite a few figures on sale at hobby search and some are from GSC and one from Alter. Impulse buying ftw and don’t blame it on me ^^;;

Nendoroid Takra Miyuki Normal Ver. by Chara-Ani
Regular Price: 3,334 yen
Sales Price: 2,333 yen

Nendoroid Hiiragi Tsukasa Normal Ver. by Chara-Ani
Regular Price: 3,334 yen
Sales Price: 2,333 yen

Figma Yagami Hayate Knigt Armor Ver. by Max Factory
Regular Price: 2,667 yen
Sales Price: 1,333 yen

Pastel Ink 1/7 by Griffon Enterprises
Regular Price: 6,800 yen
Sales Price: 3,400 yen

Seena 1/7 by Max Factory
Regular Price: 7,429 yen
Sales Price: 5,200 yen

Louis Uniform Ver. 1/8 by Alter
Regular Price: 6,800 yen
Sales Price: 5,100 yen

Nagi 1/7 by Koto
Regular Price: 6,000 yen
Sales Price: 3,900 yen

Unity Mei 1/8 by GSC
Regular Price: 7,810 yen
Sales Price: 5,857 yen

Kagami Sumika 1/8 by GSC
Regular Price: 6,477 yen
Sales Price: 3,238 yen

Shigure Asa 1/8 by Koto
Regular Price: 6,800 yen
Sales Price: 4,080 yen

Excellent Model Core Vagrant Warrior Leina 2p Collar Ver. 1/8 by MegaHouse
Regular Price: 5,700 yen
Sales Price: 3,250 yen

All images are taken from Hobby Search.